﻿No.im. 
  BEVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEIi. 
  131 
  

  

  e'. 
  Body, 
  tegmioa, 
  and 
  legs 
  almost 
  wholly 
  greeu, 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  not 
  

  

  banded. 
  

  

  /'. 
  Sides 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  narrow 
  yellow 
  stripe, 
  

  

  extending 
  to 
  the 
  up2)er 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  eyes; 
  passage 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  pro- 
  

  

  notum 
  into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  more 
  gradual 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  alternate 
  category; 
  

  

  hind 
  tibiae 
  greeu 
  ; 
  antennae 
  apically 
  infuscatcd 
  10. 
  herhaceus 
  (p. 
  153). 
  

  

  /-. 
  Disk 
  of 
  pronotuni 
  and 
  summit 
  of 
  head 
  uniform 
  in 
  coloration, 
  the 
  for- 
  

   mer 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  more 
  distinct 
  angle 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  

   alternate 
  category 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  blue; 
  antennae 
  uniform. 
  

  

  11. 
  flavescens 
  (p. 
  155). 
  

   e". 
  Body, 
  tegmina, 
  and 
  legs 
  brown 
  or 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  generally 
  

   banded 
  with 
  dark 
  colors. 
  

   /'. 
  Forks 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  fnrcula 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obliquely 
  or 
  transversely 
  trun- 
  

   cate 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  given 
  an 
  oppositely 
  hooked 
  appearance 
  by 
  the 
  rounded 
  

   excision 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  margin; 
  hind 
  femora 
  generally 
  distinctly 
  banded. 
  

   //'.Highly 
  variegated, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  pronotum 
  conspicuously 
  

   marked 
  with 
  an 
  unequal 
  bright 
  llavous 
  stripe 
  next 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae; 
  

   male 
  cerci 
  very 
  feebly 
  expanded 
  and 
  externally 
  sulcate 
  apically. 
  

  

  12. 
  pictus 
  (j). 
  1.56). 
  

   f/-. 
  Rather 
  uniform 
  in 
  coloring, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  no 
  bright 
  stripe; 
  

   male 
  cerci 
  in 
  no 
  way 
  expanded 
  apically 
  and 
  externally 
  tumid 
  rather 
  

   than 
  sulcate. 
  

  

  /( 
  '. 
  Lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  prozona 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  and 
  usually 
  distinct 
  piceous 
  

   baud 
  above; 
  tegmina 
  generally 
  distinctlj"^ 
  flecked 
  along 
  the 
  middle 
  

  

  line 
  13. 
  hoivditchi 
  (p. 
  157). 
  

  

  7i 
  '. 
  Lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  prozona 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  or 
  no 
  distinct 
  band 
  above; 
  

   tegmina 
  very 
  obscurely 
  flecked, 
  if 
  at 
  all, 
  along 
  the 
  middle 
  line. 
  

  

  U. 
  favidus 
  (p. 
  158). 
  

   /-. 
  Forks 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  fuicula 
  rounded 
  symmetrically 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  inner 
  

   margin 
  scarcely 
  more 
  excised 
  than 
  the 
  outer, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  forks 
  are 
  straight 
  

   and 
  not 
  oppositely 
  hooked; 
  bands 
  of 
  hind 
  femora 
  scarcely 
  perceptible. 
  

  

  15. 
  eloiK/atiis 
  (p. 
  160). 
  

   d-. 
  Fnrcula 
  of 
  male 
  variously 
  developed, 
  rarely 
  at 
  all 
  unusually 
  broad 
  and 
  

   flattened, 
  and 
  then 
  either 
  not 
  apically 
  emarginate 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side, 
  or 
  the 
  

   subgenital 
  plate 
  is 
  considerably 
  elevated 
  apically, 
  or 
  both. 
  

  

  e'. 
  Subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  marginal 
  length, 
  

   its 
  apical 
  margin 
  generally 
  notched; 
  cerci 
  broad 
  and 
  nearly 
  equally 
  broad 
  

   throughout 
  (except 
  sometimes 
  narrowed 
  by 
  the 
  oblique 
  excision 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  

   side 
  of 
  the 
  ajiical 
  half), 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  scarcely 
  tapering, 
  the 
  whole 
  rarely 
  

   more 
  than 
  twice 
  and 
  never 
  thrice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  middle 
  breadth 
  (except 
  in 
  

   a 
  few 
  cases, 
  and 
  tlien 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  is 
  mesially 
  

   notched), 
  very 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  at 
  a2:)ex. 
  

   /'. 
  Apical 
  margin 
  of 
  suV)genital 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  not 
  mesially 
  notched; 
  meso- 
  

   sternum 
  of 
  male 
  variable. 
  

  

  (/'. 
  Ajiical 
  margin 
  of 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  but 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  the 
  lateral 
  margius 
  and 
  moderately 
  prolonged 
  posteriorly; 
  meso- 
  

   sternum 
  of 
  male 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  lobes 
  flat 
  (4. 
  Glaucipes 
  series). 
  

  

  /('. 
  Prozona 
  of 
  male 
  longer 
  than 
  its 
  posterior 
  breadth; 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  

   more 
  pironounced 
  on 
  prozona 
  than 
  on 
  metazona; 
  interval 
  between 
  

   mesosternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  male 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  blue. 
  

  

  16. 
  f/Iaucipes 
  (p. 
  161). 
  

   h-. 
  Prozona 
  of 
  male 
  transverse; 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  more 
  pronounced 
  on 
  

   metazona 
  than 
  on 
  prozona; 
  interval 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  

   male 
  subqua<lrate; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  red 
  17. 
  lennicottii 
  (p. 
  163). 
  

  

  (/'. 
  Apical 
  margin 
  of 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  conspicuously 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  the 
  lateral 
  margius 
  and 
  greatly 
  prolonged 
  posteriorly; 
  mesoster- 
  

  

  